Artwork: "My Coney Island Baby" (Robert Wilson)
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Artwork: "My Coney Island Baby" (Robert Wilson)

Location: Coney Island/Stillwell Avenue (BMT West End Line)
Installation Year: 2004
Notes:

Artist Robert Wilson, whose "My Coney Island Baby" graces the new Stillwell Avenue station, is one of the world's most respected and original theatre artists. He was the director/designer of "Einstein on the Beach," "The Life and Death of Joseph Stalin," and the upcoming (2006) production of Ibsen's "Peer Gynt." "A 370-foot glass-brick wall features silk-screened archival images celebrating the characters and entertainments of historic Coney Island." Source: tfaoi.com.

The glass bricks, known as Vistabrik, were fabricated and installed by GBA Architectural Products. Their web site has a case study about the the installation: gbaproducts.com.


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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Location: Coney Island/Stillwell Avenue
Photo by: Peter Ehrlich
Date: 4/20/2007
Artwork: My Coney Island Baby, Robert Wilson, 2004
Viewed (this week/total): 3 / 4205


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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Location: Coney Island/Stillwell Avenue
Photo by: Robbie Rosenfeld
Date: 5/29/2006
Artwork: My Coney Island Baby, Robert Wilson, 2004
Viewed (this week/total): 1 / 4638


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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Location: Coney Island/Stillwell Avenue
Photo by: Todd Glickman
Date: 4/16/2006
Artwork: My Coney Island Baby, Robert Wilson, 2004
Viewed (this week/total): 0 / 5202


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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Location: Coney Island/Stillwell Avenue
Photo by: Todd Glickman
Date: 4/16/2006
Artwork: My Coney Island Baby, Robert Wilson, 2004
Viewed (this week/total): 1 / 3962


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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Location: Coney Island/Stillwell Avenue
Photo by: Todd Glickman
Date: 4/16/2006
Artwork: My Coney Island Baby, Robert Wilson, 2004
Viewed (this week/total): 1 / 3760


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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Location: Coney Island/Stillwell Avenue
Photo by: Robbie Rosenfeld
Date: 6/2005
Artwork: My Coney Island Baby, Robert Wilson, 2004
Viewed (this week/total): 1 / 4742


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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Location: Coney Island/Stillwell Avenue
Photo by: Robbie Rosenfeld
Date: 3/16/2005
Artwork: My Coney Island Baby, Robert Wilson, 2004
Viewed (this week/total): 0 / 4783


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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Location: Coney Island/Stillwell Avenue
Photo by: Robbie Rosenfeld
Date: 3/16/2005
Artwork: My Coney Island Baby, Robert Wilson, 2004
Viewed (this week/total): 1 / 5926


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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Location: Coney Island/Stillwell Avenue
Photo by: Robbie Rosenfeld
Date: 3/16/2005
Artwork: My Coney Island Baby, Robert Wilson, 2004
Viewed (this week/total): 2 / 4439


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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Location: Coney Island/Stillwell Avenue
Photo by: Robbie Rosenfeld
Date: 3/16/2005
Artwork: My Coney Island Baby, Robert Wilson, 2004
Viewed (this week/total): 3 / 4333


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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Location: Coney Island/Stillwell Avenue
Photo by: Robbie Rosenfeld
Date: 3/16/2005
Artwork: My Coney Island Baby, Robert Wilson, 2004
Viewed (this week/total): 0 / 4500


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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Location: Coney Island/Stillwell Avenue
Photo by: Robbie Rosenfeld
Date: 3/16/2005
Artwork: My Coney Island Baby, Robert Wilson, 2004
Viewed (this week/total): 1 / 4216


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Country: United States
City: New York
System: New York City Transit
Location: Coney Island/Stillwell Avenue
Photo by: Peter Ehrlich
Date: 10/28/2004
Artwork: My Coney Island Baby, Robert Wilson, 2004
Viewed (this week/total): 2 / 4653

   



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